CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Unstable range? (5,9) 9 Fruit container

set round 8 (6) 10 Consumers sure to be annoyed with external finishes (3,5) 11 What banks did?

Made progress (8) 13 Chum in U.S. had misplaced object of worship (6) 15 Shake note (6) 17 English bag found in very old Italian region (6) 19 Nice girl beginning to tenderise some beef (6) 20 Hedonist’s place inspires Yankee lawyers (8) 22 Smith’s products are worn out by middle of holiday (8) 24 GP kept cutting page for certificate maybe (6) 26 What teachers prefer, aware of their social standing? (5-9)

DOWN

1 Tunneller’s reasons to argue after one replaces article (6,8) 2 Examine

second tin (4) 3 Goodness! It’s upset Catholic spiritual type (6) 4 Extraordinary credit withdrawn? That’s impossible to take in (8) 5 Artists hoard good

bits of material (4) 7 Possibly char

completed party (6) 8 Old PM twice set a

new direction (5-9) 12 Assist one in rock

climbing (5) 14 Pet catches rabies? At first it’s dismal, literally (5) 16 Conservationists dashed into English church doorway (8) 18 A serious sailor’s

near the back (6) 21 Decorate floor beneath shortened cot (6) 23 Grub infesting

merino sheep (4) 25 Idiot! He’s abandoned

garments (4)